Notes on First Maccabees (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
¤ Chapter 3: Judas Machabeus succeeds his father, and overthrows Apollonius and Seron. A great army is sent against him out of Syria. He prepares his people for battle by fasting and prayer.
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